Puppy-farming candidate John Boland.

Oh_Noes

I see he's polling quite high on the Boards.ie election and I was shocked. I don't think people remember when his activities were on the news.

The identity of the breeder on such documents as there were was unreadable, but it was likely to have said 'John Boland'. Or someone very much like him. John Boland Jnr runs Ireland's - possibly Europe's - biggest puppy farm with his father in County Offaly, off the main road between Dublin and Galway.
We wanted to ask him about the chihuahua back at Petsville in Kingston, and all the other godforsaken outlets he has supplied over the years, and the plight of up to 1,500 dogs kept in breeze-block sheds on his land.
Unsurprisingly, Mr Boland Jnr was not in the mood to answer any questions when we called on him this week. 'I'll tell you what you can do, you can get off my land, get out of my house, and f*** off back to England. F *** you, f*** off back to England,' he said before giving us the V-sign for good measure.
If only the stars who are inadvertently fuelling the trade in toy breeds could visit this place.
Almost every kind of dog is here. But the Bolands now specialise in the handbag variety. It's where the biggest profits are to be made, after all.

'I can get you whatever type of pup you want,' Mr Boland's father boasted to one customer recently. 'We are all in it to make money. The more pups we sell, the better.'

The 3ft-by-3ft pens contain as many as four puppies. Some of the faces we saw peering through the mesh belonged to pugs. Shih-tzus, bichon frises and other breeds, which also appear in glossy magazines and on the red carpet with their celebrity owners, are waiting to be sold to dealers for £250 to £550.
The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) maintain the Bolands are exploiting a loophole in Irish law that allows puppy farms to operate unregulated.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1050747/How-tiny-handbag-dogs-bred-conditions-horrific-cruelty.html#ixzz1EpbrUvDi

Dusty87

Its a joke, isnt it. Thank god he didn come to my door.

Saint_Mel

Only saw one of his posters around town today. Not sure but I think one of the things on his poster was he would donate 20% of his TD salary to projects and listed Over 35 soccer tournamentsor something as a beneficiary!!!

IPushButtons

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Only saw one of his posters around town

I hope you pulled it down

xo.mary

Well, he didn't get a seat with a pitiful 330 votes.

AckwelFoley

xo.mary wrote: »

Well, he didn't get a seat with a pitiful 330 votes.

Tbh, if i ran for election and only managed to get 330 votes in the whole of Longford and westmeath, i reckon - digging a hole and throwing myself in it would be a an option - the embarrassment - although there was one douche in some other county got only 30 or 40 votes lol

whyulittle

He ran in Laois-Offaly too, and suffered a similar fate there.

IPushButtons

Clearly John didn't realise we were voting for change this time around